Quotes About Determination

But you finally got to be a tiger, Caesar.

He knew he should not have spared time for tears, and would not, ever again.

There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as a life in between.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

There are only 2 options regarding commitment. You're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in between.

There's no such things as coulda, shoulda, woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

If all a man's faculties can be concentrated on one point, it will be like a spike; a blunt object cannot penetrate an obstacle, it has to be sharpened, and then it can easily thrust its way through anything.

What? It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow.

Patricia C. McKissack

Sophie von Hahn refused to be cowed, embarrassed, resentful, dishonest or passed over. [...] She intended to bewitch her straying childhood lover all over again, and free him from whatever noxious enchantment had induced him to be censorious and horrid. No fear, no guilt, no shame. She set out to win.

I got a theory a person ought to do everything it's possible to do before he dies, and maybe die trying to do something that's really impossible.

He remembered deciding then that the world was full of Simon Legrees, and that you had to be an animal, as tough as the gorillas who worked with him at the warehouse, or starve.

There is no moral to my life - I have none - except: 'Stand up and take it'. The rest is sentiment.

You either let some event ruin your life or not. The decision is yours.

It was a kind of arrogance, perhaps, to believe so in one's destiny. But, on the other hand, who could be more genuinely humble than one who felt compelled to obey the laws of his own fate?

A book is not a thing of one sitting, like a poem, but a longish thing which takes time and energy and since it takes skill, too, the first effort or maybe the second may not find a market.

Patricia Keelyn

Don't, Lily. I will not be able to stop myself. I forced the burden of bearing a child on you once before. I will never do so again. There must be time for you to grow strong. We do not need to have more children. I would not see you suffer through that pain again. Lily glared at him. I am strong, Cade. I am strong and I am not afraid of bearing your children. And I need you in the same way that you need me and you will drive us both mad if you deny it. She

Damn you, you Indian bastard! You're not leaving me to tell Lily of your death. You're going to get up and walk out of here if it's the last thing I do. But

The implacable Indian had turned out to be one hell of a cantankerous patient. Besides

Todos los hombres tienen temores, pero los valientes los olvidan y van adelante, a veces hasta la muerte, pero siempre hasta la victoria. Ese era el lema de la Guardia Real en la antigua Grecia.

After this is kept up long enough, it changes from pretense to reality, and the man does in very fact become fearless by sheer dint of practicing fearlessness when he does not feel it.

Face the facts: Quite worrying; then do something about it!

what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.